July 21, 2024 • 34 mins
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Tauranga has elected it's first council after four years of commissioners. The local Business Chamber talks to Ryan about what they want to see.
Andrew Alderson wraps the weekend's sport stories - including a major player moving from the Hurricanes to Moana Pasifika.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge new
for twenty twenty four on the early edition with Smith City,
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Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Good morning New Zealand. It is great to be with you.
Just gone six after five year old News Talk ZB.
I'm Ryan Bridge. Welcome to your Monday morning. A lot
to get through that tech glitch on Friday evening affecting
eight and a half million computers around the world. Why
did China manage to dodge a bullet? We'll ask our
it expert just before six o'clock this morning. Also the
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guy you might have seen it in the news who
lost thirty carelos by taking ozempic. Why can't everybody take
ozempic if they want to? It has incredible results for
people that before five point thirty. And why Biden and
Obama are apparently now frenemies. We'll look at that too.
Right now, it is seven past the agenda and it's Monday,
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the twenty second of July. A controversial proposal could tank
the exports of infant formula. Australia and New Zealand ministers
will meet this week to discuss an over four hundred
page proposal which would overhaul baby formula regulations, including labeling laws.
Infant Nutrition Council's CEO Jonathan Chu says ingredients like probiotics
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would be prohibited from being on the labels. He says
the products would be stripped down and easily outshone in
overseas markets.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
That causes us great concern about what it means both
for consumers in New Zealand and for New Zealand export
of infant formula.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Less than a month after the brin Duwans reopened, a
slip closed the critical road over the weekend. State Highway
one north of Auckland had been closed for four months.
It was earlier in the year for major repair work
at a cost of eighty four million dollars, and now
it's out again. Fugaday Mayor Vince Cocarillo says a more
permanent link to the north needs to be established.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Under the under impression that this just a temper fix.
We all are waiting for the four lane expressway.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
When that actually gets completed, which is from Walkworth to.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Sing At eight, Yeah, well good luck, and honestly, how
many times have they done that? Fix it? Fix it?
Fix it, strength and strength and strengthen, and then it
happens every time it rains. Poll numbers are up for
Donald Trump, a week on from an attempt at assassination attempt,
forty percent of those poll found him to be favorable,
while fifty one percent don't. And it's not looking as
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good for Biden, sitting on thirty two percent favorability. Fifty
five percent of people find him unfavorable. The poll from
ABC News also found sixty percent of Democrats want Biden
to step aside from running as the nominee.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
This election News and Views you Trust to start your
day is early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City,
New Zealand's Furniture Beds and a flying store.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
News Talk said he's still at the beach house too,
by the way, Biden and facing more calls this morning
from more senators who want him to stand aside. This
was an independent seditor, actually an old matif who's calling
on him to stand down now. I felt bad for
Biden at the weekend watching him get off, on and
off the helicopter that took him to his beach house.
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He sort of stops and stumbles, and he looks like
he doesn't know where he is. And I used to
think it was kind of funny, you know, you go
and watch those clips online of Biden falls over, Biden
has gaff and it was funny. Now I honestly just
feel sorry for the guy. It feels a bit sad
at this point. Anyway. Great news for a man from Wellington.
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You might have seen this in the news at the weekend.
His name is Finlay Thompson and he's lost thirty kilos
by taking part in the trial of a zempac. Zimpica
is one of those miracle weight loss cure drugs that
the Americans are taking. Oprah's had it, and it mean
if Oprah's had it, then you know it's good. Oprah's
had it and she looks amazing. Elon Musk has had it.
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He's lost his sort of baby fat. The problem is
you can't so this guy in Wellington, Finlay, went from
one hundred thirty eight kre loos to one hundred and seven.
Imagine the benefits for your heart health, for your for
your psyche, for your liver, for your kidney, for your
risk of stroke. Did you know in New Zealand that
direct healthcare costs from obesity are two billion dollars. That's
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eight percent of our health budget. And the indirect costs
get this seven to nine billion dollars on the economy,
So the cost is huge. And this drug they reckon
can shave twenty five percent off you of fat off you,
and you know, in a matter of months. It's incredible
what it does. And this guy who was in the
paper at the weekend said exactly that he couldn't tie
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his shoelaces. So it's an incredible drug. So why can't
you get it for weight loss? And new Genum well
Medsafe says no, And I think that's that's stupid. I mean,
if the Americans are doing it, why can't we? Nine
nine two is the number to text. Imagine how much
we would save. And that's only one reason that we
should be doing it. Just going eleven after five. Now,
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coming up next, we are talking about the result from
the Todonger elections local body elections. And I can tell
you that the mayor lives one hundred kilometers away from
the city which he will which he will be the
mayor of in Todonger. What do you think about that?
We'll ask Matt crow Cawley, who's with us from the
totong Business Chamber.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Next the News you Need this morning and the in
depth analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City,
New Zealand's furniture beds had a playing store.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
News Talk said be thirteen after five Now Totonger has
elected a new mayor and councilors. According to preliminary results,
the former Olympic rower Mahe Drysdale will be the first
person to take the mayoral chains after the last council
was replaced by commissioners. Who remember that back in early
twenty twenty one. Local government elections for the rest of
us will take place next year, making this the first
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council that will serve a four year term. The Tonga
Business Chamber Chief executive Matt Cawley is with me this morning.
Matt was mahey, the best of the aunt do you reckon?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Look?
Speaker 5 (06:02):
He was a moderate that obviously managed to appeal to
as many people and from a business perspective, gave a
bit of certainty in terms of not wanting to be
too radical in terms of going forward. And it looks
like the team around him might be in a similar position.
So nothing too crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And there's only one guy on there who was from
the Sex Council, the guy called Steve Morris. What's he like?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Yeah, oh, look, he's a really good champion for PATMAH.
I think he was the obvious person for PATMOMA. But really, look,
it's more around how well they get along in between meetings.
I think it was an absolute pressure cooker situation last
time with COVID and a whole bunch of other things.
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But that's beyond. That's our history, that's authortion chip paper
now and hopefully we can remove those embarrassing days from us.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, I heard so. So what about the turnout? Speaking
of embarrassing, I mean it's around thirty percent.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Hopefully with specials we get somewhere close to twenty nineteen,
so it's not going to be it's be our usual trend,
which is still low but not embarrassingly low. But it
sort of raises questions around is this really the full
democracy that the so called community had wanted?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Well? Do you think it is? I mean, do you
think there's something fundamentally broken here? When they didn't have
the chance to vote at the last one. They haven't
been represented democratically for a couple of years because of
these commissioners and then here's your chance, and only thirty
percent turn up.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Yeah, I think the whole sect is a little bit
broken in terms of engaging communities, being relevant and a
little bit of sentences and fatigue out there as well.
And just Atpathieve Mike Hoskin SAIDs some comments last Friday
which I kind of agree with in terms of maybe
a bit of balance with some skills and some elected members.
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Who knows.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah, have you got any concerns or does it talk
in the town about the fact that Mahade lives one
hundred k's away from the White Cato. Does anyone care
about that?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Well, some people do. But it sounds like he'll be
considering coming over when his kid finishes his year of school,
so he will be will be part of it very
very soon. So that's not a major.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Not a big deal. It's probably Yeah, what's the big
what's the one big thing that they need to start
fixing for you.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Matt, Well, before they can fix anything, they need to
know how local government works and know how to work
together as a team. But then there's a risk that
they might be a little bit too scared of not
wanting to disagree and wanting to get along so well
that they might get a bit of group thinking and
rubber stamps some recommendations that come through from staff. So
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somewhere in between castructive discussion and robust opportunities, the Commission
is pushed back on staff a couple of times, which
is good. It's healthy and governant and they shouldn't be
too scared to do that either.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Matt, thanks for their time this morning. Good luck with
a new council. It sounds like just a bare minimum
functioning council as well. What Matt is after there? That's
Matt Carley. They're tit on a business Chamber Chief Executive.
Coming up next, it's Sport with Andrew.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Edison, The First Word on the News of the Day
Early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's
furniture Beds and a playing store.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
News Talk City, Good morning, Welcome to you month, Good morning,
Welcome to your Monday morning. On News Talks there, BET's
just gone twenty past five. A text here from John
who says, this is ozempic, the wonder drug that Oprah
took and now she looks amazing. And there's a guy
in Wellington who lost thirty kilos in the space of
a couple of months. Morning, Ryan. While the drug is
approved for another use, which is diabetes, there hasn't been
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a longer term analysis of the use for weight loss alone,
because this drug you can only get if you've got
type two diabetes in New Zealand. You can't get it
to just lose weight. Right twenty one after five, Now
Andrew Ordison's here was sport. Good morning Greeting's Ryan, and
the Tour de frances is wrapping up or has wrapped up.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Yeah, it's wrapping up, So they're just flying around at
the moment between Monaco and Nice. Just been watching Pagarchia
before I came in today. Pagarchia, who's looking to secure
as third Yellow Jewsy, looks like he's going to do
it comfortably at the moment, but you never know in
the final stanza as to where he may end up.
But he's got that comfortable five minute buffer over Jannie Vingergore.
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And Yeah, it's been a tremendous duel across what best
part of three and a half thousands of kilometers and
they're finally going to wrap it up in Nice.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
What's the distance between them are Is it quite a bit?
Speaker 7 (10:47):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (10:47):
Five minutes, so that it's on this last time trial,
so they basically just have to just have to hold
on there. And I mean, I know between you and I,
I mean the legs that their legs must be absolutely shattered.
But I mean and then it stays how long it
takes to recover and then.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
It becomes a brain thing, doesn't it? A mental Yeah? Absolutely?
The Formula One in Hungary.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Yes, so quite a controversial first there is today with
well Pastre has won the race. He's the seventh separate
winner this year in Formula One, but in the fifth
Australian to win a Formula One Grand Prix. But under
team orders, Lander Norris has had to basically move aside
as part of the McLaren team and ps she has
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come through to win the event. So ps she was
leading and took it away from Norris a pole at
the start of the race. But Norris did heavy advantage
for a great majority of it as well. But he's
been a reluctant shifter I guess to move across and
on through, but that's the nature of it. Team orders
you got to accept.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Why would they want one to win over the other?
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Well, not totally sure about how that would work at
this stage because Norris has been second to extra STARp
and in the Formula one the standings, but Piastre that
decided he was their man and in.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Three weent Oh that's disappointing.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Yeah, yeah, you'd be absolutely good.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Here's my game, here's my moment in the sun.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
I'm under contract and I've got to get got to
take the take the orders when they came.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I can't bite the hand that feeds again exactly. Ardie
Savi is leaving the Hurricanes to join Wina PACIFICA.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
I think I can probably understand this move, even years
with the Hurricanes and he's decided time for a change
and signing through. I guess the greater good is that
he will sign through till twenty twenty seven with New
Zealand Rugby and he joins his brother Jordian as well
at Wina PACIFICA. I had some success out of talent
among a season, I think four wins from fourteen the
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signs of progress there, which is good for the greater
game as well. So Ardie Savy, it's it's a big,
big signing in their respect, and and you know he'll
add a lot to their hopes in dreams for the
following season.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah were you Were you happy with the Fiji game
at the weekend?
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Yeah, I think largely they just seem to bounder control
for the most part. Another good win for Scott Robertson
to boost his confidence. You know, players like Nah Hotham
as well, just getting a chance on the field today
among others. But I thought, yeah, good good standards showing
from the All Blacks and away they go, and I
guess it leads to the rest of the season, looking
forward to where that takes them, Baggy Championship beyond.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
He's won one hundred percent of his game so far.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
That's right, And I was thinking after that first fight,
he's probably counting his blessings.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah. Anyway, Andrew Orderson Sport this morning, Thanks so much.
Just gone twenty three minutes after five. We're back in
a second talking well about the Olympics. An incredibly unique
opening ceremony will take place this Saturday. I'll tell you
about that.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Separating the fact from the fiction Kids Filling edition with
Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and a client store
News talksb Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Just gone twenty six after five Yon News talks edb
hamous Kerr. You might recall the name. He's our high jumper,
one gold at the Colm Games so far, hasn't won
anything at the Olympics, hasn't got an Olympic medal. But
boy is he looking good for Paris. He's apparently in
great shape, great form. The opening ceremony kicks off this
Saturday morning, by the way, very excited. Yeah, apparently he's
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peaking right at just at the right time. He's taken
up the men's high jump title at the London Diamond
League Athletics meet. He cleared two point three meters there.
Imagine that clearing two point three meters in the high jump.
He also won in Monaco earlier this month, where he
cleared two point three to three and that equed his
personal best in an outdoor event. So the men's high
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jump for those who are interested, is on August the seventh,
which local time, which means it'll be the eighth for us.
The opening ceremony is this Saturday morning. The time is
five thirty am, so set your alarms, get up a
little bit early. Apparently the ceremony will peak at seven
point thirty in the morning because that'll be the sunset
in Paris. Anyway, I just love this. It's our biggest
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ever at the ext TAM heading to Paris this year,
apparently heading to the Olympics. And there's nothing quite like
sitting down on the couch for hours on end with
some Bicki's and a cup of tea, watching these incredibly disciplined,
unbelievably skilled and fit athletes perform for the world. It's
almost like because you're watching them do such athletic things
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that you don't feel lazy for essentially just sitting and
watching television for hours on end. It is incredible. It
is great to watch, and there's something emotional about the
games too. There's always tears and joy and exhaustion. It's
humans who are dedicating themselves to something for years, for
their life sometimes and knowing all of that comes down
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to just a few seconds in a race or a
game or an event. It's perseverance and dedication on full display.
And I just love it. So Hamish Curve to the
record seventeen athletes that we are sending from the athletics
team and the entire team of one hundred ninety five
kiwis who will be wearing the fern in Paris. Good luck.
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We'll all be watching Bryan Bridge. Lots more to come
on the program this morning. We'll talk get some of
your feedback about ozempic. See the Olympics. Olympians wouldn't need ozempic,
would they? So just either running or rowing all the time,
they don't get fat. But for the rest of us,
well on the couch with you Bicky's and your cup
of tea, I think we could use some of ozempic.
(16:26):
Thank you very much. There was a great story in
the paper at the weekend about a guy who lost
from Wellington who lost thirty kilos on Ozmpic. So we're
talking about that and we'll get your feedback shortly, very quickly.
Apparently there was a Biden and Obama are frenemies. What
frenemies are friends slash enemies? And obviously they used to
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be president and vice president together, but apparently because Obama's
trying to talk Biden out of the race. But apparently
Biden has a grudge against Obama because of twenty sixteen
when Biden wants to run and Obamasa and his team
said no, don't leave it to Hillary, And of course
Hillary ran and Hillary lost, and he holds a grudge
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about that. So the more Obama says drop out, the
more strident Biden becomes and sure of himself that he's
going to stay in the race. So we'll see how
that plays out in the next couple of days. Lots
more to come here on AM this morning, and we're
going to talk to an IT expert about why that
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tech autage skipped China. It's all the.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Head get ahead of the headlines. Ryan Bridge, you for
twenty twenty four on early edition with Smith City, New
Zealand's furniture beds and a playing store. News Talk said, B.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Good morning, great, have you with me? It is coming
up to twenty four minutes away from six on news
Talk said B, and it is your Monday morning. We're
going to get to our reporters right around the country
in just a second. But first and very quickly, Barcelona.
This has been a running debate for them. Now not
so much of a debate. I think they've made up
their minds about mass tourism, but they're taking more steps
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to try and basically middle finger tourists who are coming
to Barcelona. So the mayor, the Juame called Boni is
his name. He's from the Catalan Socialist Party. He is
going to raise the tourist tax for cruise passengers because
they only visit for twelve hours at a time, and
he says that basically at the moment the fee is
about six or seven euros. He hasn't seen what he's
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going to increase it to. But he's also gone and
taken away the licenses of a whole bunch of Airbnb
is about ten thousand of them, so people who had
bought properties with the intention of renting them out short term,
he said, nap, you can't rent them out short term anymore.
This mass tourism is ruining Barcelona. And the reason he's
targeting the cruise ship passengers is if you've ever been
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to a you know, to somewhere in Europe and you've
been to the down to the wharf, I mean, it's
a chaos ensues. There's these big groups to come in
off the boats, normally eaten on board the vessel, so
they're not actually buying from the shops. You know, they
do a bit of shopping in the stores and things,
but it's not the same valued for having a tourist
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off a cruise liner as it is having someone actually
stay the night in your town or your city. So
he's going after them and he has a lot of
public support and doing so. Twenty two minutes away from
six Bread Brech Blake. Benny's with us in duned and Blake,
good morning, Good to have you here. The proposed by
law that the Needon City Council is looking at. What's
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this about?
Speaker 8 (19:34):
Well, it's time to hear if it's a dog's breakfast
or not. Submissions on the control by law and policy
review have closed. Now. The council's proposing dogs be allowed
on a leash in the Octagon and Library Plaza and
off leash at certain public areas. It's also suggesting changes
to the number of dogs a person can have in public,
as well as leash restrictions in some areas. Now public
hearings and deliberations start next month.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Whether today, Blake.
Speaker 8 (19:58):
Periods of rain clearing the staff but remaining mostly cloudy.
High of nine.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Thank you very much. Cli Sherwood is in christ Church
for us this morning. Clear, good morning frustration over the
government's new housing policy.
Speaker 9 (20:09):
There, yes, Ryan look. Housing Minister Chris Bishop's proposing to
require councils to stop setting fixed rural urban boundaries and
to set some new targets in his going for housing
growth plan. But the council here, the christ Church City
Council has listed six concerns with those changes combined. Residents
Association spokesperson Tony Simons says it seems like Bishop's unaware
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of the city's housing problems. He says we have more
than enough houses to satisfy his requirement of land for
the next thirty to fifty years and could even have
capacity for one hundred. Minister Bishop has been approached for comment.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Thanks so much. Has the weather today clear?
Speaker 9 (20:47):
Well drizzley this morning, bit of rain on the cards
this afternoon. Southwesterly is becoming strong, a high of ten
with an overnight love of three.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Thank you. Max is in Wellington. Max's toll more doubt
about the council's airport shares sale.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Yes, so essentially more counselors who were convinced to vote
to sell the city council thirty four percent stake in
Wellington Airport now coming out saying they're opposed to the idea.
This is in the post this morning. The Mayor and
Chief Executive basically sold this to councilors as a must
do for the sake of the city's financial books. Labor
and Green councilors were furious Tory Fano lost the backing
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of some of her traditional allies. So you've now got
more moderate right leaning counselors who did vote for it,
saying it was a bad idea too. Nicolae Young, Dian
Calvert Tony randaled the reason again is what they were
told the money would be used for by the CEO,
by the mayor, by the financial chiefs, that it would
essentially be used for a perpetual investment fund. That promise
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now apparently is ify. So you've got a strong majority
opposed to a vote that passed recently to a sale
that hasn't happened yet. Questions around whether there's going to
be another vote, but councillors are certainly pushing for one.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
All on the Becker some bad advice, Max.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
How's the weather today, chowers this morning, clearing this afternoon
eleven the high central brilliant.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Thank you never RITTI. Many's with us in Auckland. Good morning,
good morning. You've got some news for us about the
Auckland mayor and traffic cones.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
Yes, traffic cones in Auckland. We all know how we
feel about traffic cones. So Wayne Brown, he's calling for
an end to what he's calling traffic cone mania. Now
he commissioned an independent report and it's found that temporary
traffic management contractors are incentivized to increase disruption for greater profits.
So he says, look, traffic management, the temporary management here,
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it's just gone beyond its necessity. He reckons it doesn't
make work sites safer. So he'd like to see some
changes to legislation so that councils can charge contractors for disruption.
Wouldn't that be great?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Great turning the tables on them.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
That's right.
Speaker 10 (22:50):
So he's he's onto it.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
He's onto it because the costs. Every cone costs so
much money to hire. I mean, if you've added them
all up, I would hate to think even in the sea,
what you would be speaking.
Speaker 10 (23:02):
You must be millions of them, That's what I was thinking. Hey,
I just quickly, you know how I spoke to you
on Friday about this ninetieth birthday that.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I was How was it?
Speaker 10 (23:10):
Oh my gosh, she's ninety going on seventy. It was
the best birthday party ever, I should have got her
now when I think about it, I should have got
her a bungee jump because she was really, really sassy
and she got up. There was a talent quiet. She
was up singing and dancing and oh my gosh, and
then she did this amazing speech. She's really tech savvy,
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she says. She got up there with the microphone in hand.
I thought, oh my gosh, you should be a broadcaster.
She could come and read the news. She said, I'm
on you know, Instagram, I'm on Facebook, I'm on TikTok.
She's ninety and she said the only thing I'm not
on is tinder. Oh wow, so big ups to hear.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
What an amazing woman. And what did she take as
a gift in the end, Because what we spoke about.
Speaker 10 (23:51):
In front its high tea. I thought I'll take away
voucher for high tea. Quite a few people said do
some baking or something like that. So I gave it
to her and she said, can I have a glass
of bubbly with that? I thought, oh, get you, miss.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
She wants a cocktail. She sounds amazing. Happy birthday. What's
her name?
Speaker 10 (24:07):
Her name's Selol so Llao.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Happy birthday, so low keep it up. Whether we the luck.
Speaker 10 (24:12):
Today m shell is he be at times thunderstorms, possible
good day for a cocktail. Oh I have sixteen good.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Day for a cocktail on a Monday morning. Never ready money,
but that's an Auckland this morning, just gone seventeen away
from six now Gavin Gray live from the UK next.
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Speaker 1 (25:26):
Well International correspondence with ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of
mind for New Zealand business.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
In just a few minutes. The tech breakdown on Friday.
Was it a media beat up or a genuine crisis?
Because Microsoft says only one percent of its computers were affected.
We'll talk about that in just a few seconds right now.
Gavin Gray is with US our UK Europe correspondent Gavin
Germany apparently foiling a suspected terror plot tell us about that.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Good morning to you, Ryan. Yeah, I'm confirmed. But it
is said that the days before the final of the
Euros in which of course England football team were defeated
by Spain two to one. It was last Sunday's big
football showpiece. But it's now been claimed that in the
days before that, police in Germany managed to foil a
(26:15):
suspected terrorist plot by Islamic state. It was said that
there was the potential to attack a fan zone, so
where fans don't have tickets, they obviously go to a
big screen in a big area, and it was said
to be in Berlin's sprawling bright shiped flats. Thousands of
supporters did gather there, but that was after three suspects
had been detained by German special forces coordinated raids in
(26:39):
the nearby Potsdam district, and it was said that of
those it is thought that people were taking pictures on
their phones of the area beforehand, so it said the
men were known to Islamic were known as Islamic State
supporters already to German surveillance and of course around Let's
not forget all this before the Olympics starts in Paris
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amid very type security on Friday.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Yeah, that is a worry, isn't it. And I know
I've got about forty five thousand police officers are going
to be in the city for the opening ceremony. Let's
go to Leeds riots and leads.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Yeah, so Leeds, big city in Yorkshire, northeast of England,
and when the local authority turned up with police in
order to take some children away from one particular family.
We don't have any more details, but obviously the authorities
did not think the children were safe. All of a
sudden they were surrounded by lots of other people thought
(27:36):
to be from the Roma community, of which there is
a large ethnic population of Roma in the Harehills district
of Leeds. It led to some violence. Police were attacked
with things being thrown at them, but also if police
car was overturned, officers pelted as I mentioned, and a
bus was set on fire. Well a man has now
been charged with arson and violent disorder because of the bus,
(27:59):
and five others have been arrested on suspicion and violent disorder.
Lots of very good pictures on social media of those
who were said to be the ringleaders, and the Home
Secretary saying this was just absolutely audacious, senseless violence and
it will not be allowed and the police are to
take the full force of action against those that are
found responsible. Conditions there still said to be very tense
(28:23):
in the Ahals area as the children are still away
from the family and the family say they want their
children back. They've done nothing wrong.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Gosh, it does sound like a very distressing situation. Kevin,
thank you very much for your time. Kevin Gray, UK
Europe correspondent with us this morning ten two.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Six Ryan Bridge.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Parts of the world came to a stop on Friday
night when computer systems crashed, leaving people looking an error
message known as the Blue Screen of Death. Flights were grounded,
payment systems were down. Street lights in Levin were turned
off just Levin or all the other places too. Presumably
it was all caused by an update to Microsoft devices
(29:03):
issued by the tech company crowd Strike, whose shares have
since plummeted. It expert and Rush Digital founder done to abseria,
is with me now? Done? A good morning?
Speaker 3 (29:12):
How do we go?
Speaker 2 (29:13):
They say that that this affected only one percent of
Microsoft's computers, and yet it seems to have have had
a huge impact on on you know, lots of different
parts of the world.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Why is that, Yeah, it's it's because a lot of
server software, a lot of service systems actually support many
many users. So the Microsoft Azure cloud was affected by this,
which is why so many sort of online services went out.
And if you think about banking servers, you know they
(29:46):
might only have a couple of servers, but it serves
their entire customer base, so you have if you take
out a few of these machines they cause these kinds
of outages.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
So that that statistic that they put out saying it
so don't worry, it's only one percent, that actual it's
not the full picture. Really.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Yeah, there's a bit of spin on that, right, Like
they're not really talking about how many people it affected
that that would be one set, right, Like they're just
talking about purely computer systems, which I don't think is
a really fair metric to be using that.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Could it happen again? And could cyber criminals do exactly
what they have done? I mean, if I was a
cyber criminal, I'd be looking at what happened on Friday
and I'd be thinking, right, how can I do that?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Yeah, No, it's a it's a pretty interesting point. I
think one thing that is I guess leaked is you know,
the intelligence with the what they call intelligence, but basically
cyber criminals knowing what kind of software you're running. It's
kind of like knowing what kind of lock you've got
on your door, and if there's a vulnerability about that lock,
you know they're going to be using that. There have
been reports of fishing and sort of cybersecurity scams already
(30:52):
pretending to be you know, support staff from CrowdStrike and
Microsoft and other vendors that were involved in the outage.
So you're absolutely spot on, you know, to cyber criminals
doing what cybercriminals do best. I guess. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
And interestingly, China dodged a bullet on all of this
because they don't use CrowdStrike.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Yeah. Yeah, I think that you'd probably refer to that
as some kind of unintended side effect of not trusting
American technology companies. But it does demonstrate, you know, there's
definitely been a failure from CrowdStrike to properly test their
software before sending it out. That's evident because if it
affected eight point five million machines, it's really hard to
(31:33):
believe that, you know, the test team couldn't reproduce it
in their lab before releasing it. So I think crowdstrikes
in for a world hurt in terms of lawsuits and liabilities.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Absolutely, especially when you've got especially when you've got emergency
services lines down as a result of it as well. Danu,
thank you very much for your time this morning. Always
appreciate your insight. That's done Abassiria. He's the IT expert
and Rush Digital founder. It's seven Away from six. Mike
Hoskins next.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition with
Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture, Beds and
a playing Store. On News Talk, said b This is
news Talk, said be breaking news.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
And breaking news this morning. Joe Biden is stepping down
as the Democratic presidential candidate. He says it's been the
greatest honor of his life to serve as president, but
that he is going to step aside from the ticket
as the presidential candidate for the Democrats. This is news
just breaking out of the United States right now. We're
(32:37):
expecting to hear from Biden shortly. Mike Hoskins just walked
in because he's about to start his show. Mike, you
actually called this, didn't you? On Friday.
Speaker 11 (32:44):
Yes, he'll be speaking later on this week because obviously
he's isolating in deverworld and he's got to get back
to Washington, and so the pressure's obviously got as we
left on Friday, Pelosi, Schumer and Obama, it all got
to him, and the money dried up, and there was
a phone call over the weekend, I think yesterday with
Harrison several hundred donors of the party were sort of
(33:06):
being briefed on where this goes. So I'm assuming now
it's I mean, they will go to the convention, presumably
in Chicago. And but then the question is is it
an open contest? Do they just give it to Harris
anoint her.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Well, they can't.
Speaker 11 (33:19):
They can't give it to her, I don't think because
of the delegates. The delegates have pledged to vote for Biden,
and so they've all been clear to pledge to vote
for Biden. So I'm assuming it will be an open contest.
But with the theory being that by the time Harris
arrives there with whoever she takes with her, it's a
done deal without it being a done deal, if you
(33:40):
if you see what I mean, because the last thing
they need now, of course, is to have a big scrap.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
A messy primary. But anyway, it's all on. It's getting
exciting Monday. It is indeed, right there you go. That'll
that'll do your show for today.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
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Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Good morning New Zealand. It is great to be with you.
Just gone six after five year old News Talk ZB.
I'm Ryan Bridge. Welcome to your Monday morning. A lot
to get through that tech glitch on Friday evening affecting
eight and a half million computers around the world. Why
did China manage to dodge a bullet? We'll ask our
it expert just before six o'clock this morning. Also the
(00:37):
guy you might have seen it in the news who
lost thirty carelos by taking ozempic. Why can't everybody take
ozempic if they want to? It has incredible results for
people that before five point thirty. And why Biden and
Obama are apparently now frenemies. We'll look at that too.
Right now, it is seven past the agenda and it's Monday,
(01:00):
the twenty second of July. A controversial proposal could tank
the exports of infant formula. Australia and New Zealand ministers
will meet this week to discuss an over four hundred
page proposal which would overhaul baby formula regulations, including labeling laws.
Infant Nutrition Council's CEO Jonathan Chu says ingredients like probiotics
(01:21):
would be prohibited from being on the labels. He says
the products would be stripped down and easily outshone in
overseas markets.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
That causes us great concern about what it means both
for consumers in New Zealand and for New Zealand export
of infant formula.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Less than a month after the brin Duwans reopened, a
slip closed the critical road over the weekend. State Highway
one north of Auckland had been closed for four months.
It was earlier in the year for major repair work
at a cost of eighty four million dollars, and now
it's out again. Fugaday Mayor Vince Cocarillo says a more
permanent link to the north needs to be established.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Under the under impression that this just a temper fix.
We all are waiting for the four lane expressway.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
When that actually gets completed, which is from Walkworth to.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Sing At eight, Yeah, well good luck, and honestly, how
many times have they done that? Fix it? Fix it?
Fix it, strength and strength and strengthen, and then it
happens every time it rains. Poll numbers are up for
Donald Trump, a week on from an attempt at assassination attempt,
forty percent of those poll found him to be favorable,
while fifty one percent don't. And it's not looking as
(02:27):
good for Biden, sitting on thirty two percent favorability. Fifty
five percent of people find him unfavorable. The poll from
ABC News also found sixty percent of Democrats want Biden
to step aside from running as the nominee.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
This election News and Views you Trust to start your
day is early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City,
New Zealand's Furniture Beds and a flying store.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
News Talk said he's still at the beach house too,
by the way, Biden and facing more calls this morning
from more senators who want him to stand aside. This
was an independent seditor, actually an old matif who's calling
on him to stand down now. I felt bad for
Biden at the weekend watching him get off, on and
off the helicopter that took him to his beach house.
(03:12):
He sort of stops and stumbles, and he looks like
he doesn't know where he is. And I used to
think it was kind of funny, you know, you go
and watch those clips online of Biden falls over, Biden
has gaff and it was funny. Now I honestly just
feel sorry for the guy. It feels a bit sad
at this point. Anyway. Great news for a man from Wellington.
(03:33):
You might have seen this in the news at the weekend.
His name is Finlay Thompson and he's lost thirty kilos
by taking part in the trial of a zempac. Zimpica
is one of those miracle weight loss cure drugs that
the Americans are taking. Oprah's had it, and it mean
if Oprah's had it, then you know it's good. Oprah's
had it and she looks amazing. Elon Musk has had it.
(03:53):
He's lost his sort of baby fat. The problem is
you can't so this guy in Wellington, Finlay, went from
one hundred thirty eight kre loos to one hundred and seven.
Imagine the benefits for your heart health, for your for
your psyche, for your liver, for your kidney, for your
risk of stroke. Did you know in New Zealand that
direct healthcare costs from obesity are two billion dollars. That's
(04:16):
eight percent of our health budget. And the indirect costs
get this seven to nine billion dollars on the economy,
So the cost is huge. And this drug they reckon
can shave twenty five percent off you of fat off you,
and you know, in a matter of months. It's incredible
what it does. And this guy who was in the
paper at the weekend said exactly that he couldn't tie
(04:37):
his shoelaces. So it's an incredible drug. So why can't
you get it for weight loss? And new Genum well
Medsafe says no, And I think that's that's stupid. I mean,
if the Americans are doing it, why can't we? Nine
nine two is the number to text. Imagine how much
we would save. And that's only one reason that we
should be doing it. Just going eleven after five. Now,
(04:58):
coming up next, we are talking about the result from
the Todonger elections local body elections. And I can tell
you that the mayor lives one hundred kilometers away from
the city which he will which he will be the
mayor of in Todonger. What do you think about that?
We'll ask Matt crow Cawley, who's with us from the
totong Business Chamber.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Next the News you Need this morning and the in
depth analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City,
New Zealand's furniture beds had a playing store.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
News Talk said be thirteen after five Now Totonger has
elected a new mayor and councilors. According to preliminary results,
the former Olympic rower Mahe Drysdale will be the first
person to take the mayoral chains after the last council
was replaced by commissioners. Who remember that back in early
twenty twenty one. Local government elections for the rest of
us will take place next year, making this the first
(05:51):
council that will serve a four year term. The Tonga
Business Chamber Chief executive Matt Cawley is with me this morning.
Matt was mahey, the best of the aunt do you reckon?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Look?
Speaker 5 (06:02):
He was a moderate that obviously managed to appeal to
as many people and from a business perspective, gave a
bit of certainty in terms of not wanting to be
too radical in terms of going forward. And it looks
like the team around him might be in a similar position.
So nothing too crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And there's only one guy on there who was from
the Sex Council, the guy called Steve Morris. What's he like?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Yeah, oh, look, he's a really good champion for PATMAH.
I think he was the obvious person for PATMOMA. But really, look,
it's more around how well they get along in between meetings.
I think it was an absolute pressure cooker situation last
time with COVID and a whole bunch of other things.
(06:48):
But that's beyond. That's our history, that's authortion chip paper
now and hopefully we can remove those embarrassing days from us.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, I heard so. So what about the turnout? Speaking
of embarrassing, I mean it's around thirty percent.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Hopefully with specials we get somewhere close to twenty nineteen,
so it's not going to be it's be our usual trend,
which is still low but not embarrassingly low. But it
sort of raises questions around is this really the full
democracy that the so called community had wanted?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Well? Do you think it is? I mean, do you
think there's something fundamentally broken here? When they didn't have
the chance to vote at the last one. They haven't
been represented democratically for a couple of years because of
these commissioners and then here's your chance, and only thirty
percent turn up.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Yeah, I think the whole sect is a little bit
broken in terms of engaging communities, being relevant and a
little bit of sentences and fatigue out there as well.
And just Atpathieve Mike Hoskin SAIDs some comments last Friday
which I kind of agree with in terms of maybe
a bit of balance with some skills and some elected members.
(08:04):
Who knows.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah, have you got any concerns or does it talk
in the town about the fact that Mahade lives one
hundred k's away from the White Cato. Does anyone care
about that?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Well, some people do. But it sounds like he'll be
considering coming over when his kid finishes his year of school,
so he will be will be part of it very
very soon. So that's not a major.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Not a big deal. It's probably Yeah, what's the big
what's the one big thing that they need to start
fixing for you.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Matt, Well, before they can fix anything, they need to
know how local government works and know how to work
together as a team. But then there's a risk that
they might be a little bit too scared of not
wanting to disagree and wanting to get along so well
that they might get a bit of group thinking and
rubber stamps some recommendations that come through from staff. So
(08:58):
somewhere in between castructive discussion and robust opportunities, the Commission
is pushed back on staff a couple of times, which
is good. It's healthy and governant and they shouldn't be
too scared to do that either.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Matt, thanks for their time this morning. Good luck with
a new council. It sounds like just a bare minimum
functioning council as well. What Matt is after there? That's
Matt Carley. They're tit on a business Chamber Chief Executive.
Coming up next, it's Sport with Andrew.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Edison, The First Word on the News of the Day
Early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's
furniture Beds and a playing store.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
News Talk City, Good morning, Welcome to you month, Good morning,
Welcome to your Monday morning. On News Talks there, BET's
just gone twenty past five. A text here from John
who says, this is ozempic, the wonder drug that Oprah
took and now she looks amazing. And there's a guy
in Wellington who lost thirty kilos in the space of
a couple of months. Morning, Ryan. While the drug is
approved for another use, which is diabetes, there hasn't been
(09:57):
a longer term analysis of the use for weight loss alone,
because this drug you can only get if you've got
type two diabetes in New Zealand. You can't get it
to just lose weight. Right twenty one after five, Now
Andrew Ordison's here was sport. Good morning Greeting's Ryan, and
the Tour de frances is wrapping up or has wrapped up.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Yeah, it's wrapping up, So they're just flying around at
the moment between Monaco and Nice. Just been watching Pagarchia
before I came in today. Pagarchia, who's looking to secure
as third Yellow Jewsy, looks like he's going to do
it comfortably at the moment, but you never know in
the final stanza as to where he may end up.
But he's got that comfortable five minute buffer over Jannie Vingergore.
(10:34):
And Yeah, it's been a tremendous duel across what best
part of three and a half thousands of kilometers and
they're finally going to wrap it up in Nice.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
What's the distance between them are Is it quite a bit?
Speaker 7 (10:47):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (10:47):
Five minutes, so that it's on this last time trial,
so they basically just have to just have to hold
on there. And I mean, I know between you and I,
I mean the legs that their legs must be absolutely shattered.
But I mean and then it stays how long it
takes to recover and then.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
It becomes a brain thing, doesn't it? A mental Yeah? Absolutely?
The Formula One in Hungary.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Yes, so quite a controversial first there is today with
well Pastre has won the race. He's the seventh separate
winner this year in Formula One, but in the fifth
Australian to win a Formula One Grand Prix. But under
team orders, Lander Norris has had to basically move aside
as part of the McLaren team and ps she has
(11:30):
come through to win the event. So ps she was
leading and took it away from Norris a pole at
the start of the race. But Norris did heavy advantage
for a great majority of it as well. But he's
been a reluctant shifter I guess to move across and
on through, but that's the nature of it. Team orders
you got to accept.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Why would they want one to win over the other?
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Well, not totally sure about how that would work at
this stage because Norris has been second to extra STARp
and in the Formula one the standings, but Piastre that
decided he was their man and in.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Three weent Oh that's disappointing.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Yeah, yeah, you'd be absolutely good.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Here's my game, here's my moment in the sun.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
I'm under contract and I've got to get got to
take the take the orders when they came.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I can't bite the hand that feeds again exactly. Ardie
Savi is leaving the Hurricanes to join Wina PACIFICA.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
I think I can probably understand this move, even years
with the Hurricanes and he's decided time for a change
and signing through. I guess the greater good is that
he will sign through till twenty twenty seven with New
Zealand Rugby and he joins his brother Jordian as well
at Wina PACIFICA. I had some success out of talent
among a season, I think four wins from fourteen the
(12:42):
signs of progress there, which is good for the greater
game as well. So Ardie Savy, it's it's a big,
big signing in their respect, and and you know he'll
add a lot to their hopes in dreams for the
following season.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah were you Were you happy with the Fiji game
at the weekend?
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Yeah, I think largely they just seem to bounder control
for the most part. Another good win for Scott Robertson
to boost his confidence. You know, players like Nah Hotham
as well, just getting a chance on the field today
among others. But I thought, yeah, good good standards showing
from the All Blacks and away they go, and I
guess it leads to the rest of the season, looking
forward to where that takes them, Baggy Championship beyond.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
He's won one hundred percent of his game so far.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
That's right, And I was thinking after that first fight,
he's probably counting his blessings.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah. Anyway, Andrew Orderson Sport this morning, Thanks so much.
Just gone twenty three minutes after five. We're back in
a second talking well about the Olympics. An incredibly unique
opening ceremony will take place this Saturday. I'll tell you
about that.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Separating the fact from the fiction Kids Filling edition with
Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and a client store
News talksb Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Just gone twenty six after five Yon News talks edb
hamous Kerr. You might recall the name. He's our high jumper,
one gold at the Colm Games so far, hasn't won
anything at the Olympics, hasn't got an Olympic medal. But
boy is he looking good for Paris. He's apparently in
great shape, great form. The opening ceremony kicks off this
Saturday morning, by the way, very excited. Yeah, apparently he's
(14:15):
peaking right at just at the right time. He's taken
up the men's high jump title at the London Diamond
League Athletics meet. He cleared two point three meters there.
Imagine that clearing two point three meters in the high jump.
He also won in Monaco earlier this month, where he
cleared two point three to three and that equed his
personal best in an outdoor event. So the men's high
(14:36):
jump for those who are interested, is on August the seventh,
which local time, which means it'll be the eighth for us.
The opening ceremony is this Saturday morning. The time is
five thirty am, so set your alarms, get up a
little bit early. Apparently the ceremony will peak at seven
point thirty in the morning because that'll be the sunset
in Paris. Anyway, I just love this. It's our biggest
(14:59):
ever at the ext TAM heading to Paris this year,
apparently heading to the Olympics. And there's nothing quite like
sitting down on the couch for hours on end with
some Bicki's and a cup of tea, watching these incredibly disciplined,
unbelievably skilled and fit athletes perform for the world. It's
almost like because you're watching them do such athletic things
(15:22):
that you don't feel lazy for essentially just sitting and
watching television for hours on end. It is incredible. It
is great to watch, and there's something emotional about the
games too. There's always tears and joy and exhaustion. It's
humans who are dedicating themselves to something for years, for
their life sometimes and knowing all of that comes down
(15:43):
to just a few seconds in a race or a
game or an event. It's perseverance and dedication on full display.
And I just love it. So Hamish Curve to the
record seventeen athletes that we are sending from the athletics
team and the entire team of one hundred ninety five
kiwis who will be wearing the fern in Paris. Good luck.
(16:05):
We'll all be watching Bryan Bridge. Lots more to come
on the program this morning. We'll talk get some of
your feedback about ozempic. See the Olympics. Olympians wouldn't need ozempic,
would they? So just either running or rowing all the time,
they don't get fat. But for the rest of us,
well on the couch with you Bicky's and your cup
of tea, I think we could use some of ozempic.
(16:26):
Thank you very much. There was a great story in
the paper at the weekend about a guy who lost
from Wellington who lost thirty kilos on Ozmpic. So we're
talking about that and we'll get your feedback shortly, very quickly.
Apparently there was a Biden and Obama are frenemies. What
frenemies are friends slash enemies? And obviously they used to
(16:47):
be president and vice president together, but apparently because Obama's
trying to talk Biden out of the race. But apparently
Biden has a grudge against Obama because of twenty sixteen
when Biden wants to run and Obamasa and his team
said no, don't leave it to Hillary, And of course
Hillary ran and Hillary lost, and he holds a grudge
(17:07):
about that. So the more Obama says drop out, the
more strident Biden becomes and sure of himself that he's
going to stay in the race. So we'll see how
that plays out in the next couple of days. Lots
more to come here on AM this morning, and we're
going to talk to an IT expert about why that
(17:28):
tech autage skipped China. It's all the.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Head get ahead of the headlines. Ryan Bridge, you for
twenty twenty four on early edition with Smith City, New
Zealand's furniture beds and a playing store. News Talk said, B.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Good morning, great, have you with me? It is coming
up to twenty four minutes away from six on news
Talk said B, and it is your Monday morning. We're
going to get to our reporters right around the country
in just a second. But first and very quickly, Barcelona.
This has been a running debate for them. Now not
so much of a debate. I think they've made up
their minds about mass tourism, but they're taking more steps
(18:06):
to try and basically middle finger tourists who are coming
to Barcelona. So the mayor, the Juame called Boni is
his name. He's from the Catalan Socialist Party. He is
going to raise the tourist tax for cruise passengers because
they only visit for twelve hours at a time, and
he says that basically at the moment the fee is
about six or seven euros. He hasn't seen what he's
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going to increase it to. But he's also gone and
taken away the licenses of a whole bunch of Airbnb
is about ten thousand of them, so people who had
bought properties with the intention of renting them out short term,
he said, nap, you can't rent them out short term anymore.
This mass tourism is ruining Barcelona. And the reason he's
targeting the cruise ship passengers is if you've ever been
(18:49):
to a you know, to somewhere in Europe and you've
been to the down to the wharf, I mean, it's
a chaos ensues. There's these big groups to come in
off the boats, normally eaten on board the vessel, so
they're not actually buying from the shops. You know, they
do a bit of shopping in the stores and things,
but it's not the same valued for having a tourist
(19:12):
off a cruise liner as it is having someone actually
stay the night in your town or your city. So
he's going after them and he has a lot of
public support and doing so. Twenty two minutes away from
six Bread Brech Blake. Benny's with us in duned and Blake,
good morning, Good to have you here. The proposed by
law that the Needon City Council is looking at. What's
(19:33):
this about?
Speaker 8 (19:34):
Well, it's time to hear if it's a dog's breakfast
or not. Submissions on the control by law and policy
review have closed. Now. The council's proposing dogs be allowed
on a leash in the Octagon and Library Plaza and
off leash at certain public areas. It's also suggesting changes
to the number of dogs a person can have in public,
as well as leash restrictions in some areas. Now public
hearings and deliberations start next month.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Whether today, Blake.
Speaker 8 (19:58):
Periods of rain clearing the staff but remaining mostly cloudy.
High of nine.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Thank you very much. Cli Sherwood is in christ Church
for us this morning. Clear, good morning frustration over the
government's new housing policy.
Speaker 9 (20:09):
There, yes, Ryan look. Housing Minister Chris Bishop's proposing to
require councils to stop setting fixed rural urban boundaries and
to set some new targets in his going for housing
growth plan. But the council here, the christ Church City
Council has listed six concerns with those changes combined. Residents
Association spokesperson Tony Simons says it seems like Bishop's unaware
(20:31):
of the city's housing problems. He says we have more
than enough houses to satisfy his requirement of land for
the next thirty to fifty years and could even have
capacity for one hundred. Minister Bishop has been approached for comment.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Thanks so much. Has the weather today clear?
Speaker 9 (20:47):
Well drizzley this morning, bit of rain on the cards
this afternoon. Southwesterly is becoming strong, a high of ten
with an overnight love of three.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Thank you. Max is in Wellington. Max's toll more doubt
about the council's airport shares sale.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Yes, so essentially more counselors who were convinced to vote
to sell the city council thirty four percent stake in
Wellington Airport now coming out saying they're opposed to the idea.
This is in the post this morning. The Mayor and
Chief Executive basically sold this to councilors as a must
do for the sake of the city's financial books. Labor
and Green councilors were furious Tory Fano lost the backing
(21:23):
of some of her traditional allies. So you've now got
more moderate right leaning counselors who did vote for it,
saying it was a bad idea too. Nicolae Young, Dian
Calvert Tony randaled the reason again is what they were
told the money would be used for by the CEO,
by the mayor, by the financial chiefs, that it would
essentially be used for a perpetual investment fund. That promise
(21:45):
now apparently is ify. So you've got a strong majority
opposed to a vote that passed recently to a sale
that hasn't happened yet. Questions around whether there's going to
be another vote, but councillors are certainly pushing for one.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
All on the Becker some bad advice, Max.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
How's the weather today, chowers this morning, clearing this afternoon
eleven the high central brilliant.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Thank you never RITTI. Many's with us in Auckland. Good morning,
good morning. You've got some news for us about the
Auckland mayor and traffic cones.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
Yes, traffic cones in Auckland. We all know how we
feel about traffic cones. So Wayne Brown, he's calling for
an end to what he's calling traffic cone mania. Now
he commissioned an independent report and it's found that temporary
traffic management contractors are incentivized to increase disruption for greater profits.
So he says, look, traffic management, the temporary management here,
(22:36):
it's just gone beyond its necessity. He reckons it doesn't
make work sites safer. So he'd like to see some
changes to legislation so that councils can charge contractors for disruption.
Wouldn't that be great?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Great turning the tables on them.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
That's right.
Speaker 10 (22:50):
So he's he's onto it.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
He's onto it because the costs. Every cone costs so
much money to hire. I mean, if you've added them
all up, I would hate to think even in the sea,
what you would be speaking.
Speaker 10 (23:02):
You must be millions of them, That's what I was thinking. Hey,
I just quickly, you know how I spoke to you
on Friday about this ninetieth birthday that.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I was How was it?
Speaker 10 (23:10):
Oh my gosh, she's ninety going on seventy. It was
the best birthday party ever, I should have got her
now when I think about it, I should have got
her a bungee jump because she was really, really sassy
and she got up. There was a talent quiet. She
was up singing and dancing and oh my gosh, and
then she did this amazing speech. She's really tech savvy,
(23:32):
she says. She got up there with the microphone in hand.
I thought, oh my gosh, you should be a broadcaster.
She could come and read the news. She said, I'm
on you know, Instagram, I'm on Facebook, I'm on TikTok.
She's ninety and she said the only thing I'm not
on is tinder. Oh wow, so big ups to hear.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
What an amazing woman. And what did she take as
a gift in the end, Because what we spoke about.
Speaker 10 (23:51):
In front its high tea. I thought I'll take away
voucher for high tea. Quite a few people said do
some baking or something like that. So I gave it
to her and she said, can I have a glass
of bubbly with that? I thought, oh, get you, miss.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
She wants a cocktail. She sounds amazing. Happy birthday. What's
her name?
Speaker 10 (24:07):
Her name's Selol so Llao.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Happy birthday, so low keep it up. Whether we the luck.
Speaker 10 (24:12):
Today m shell is he be at times thunderstorms, possible
good day for a cocktail. Oh I have sixteen good.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Day for a cocktail on a Monday morning. Never ready money,
but that's an Auckland this morning, just gone seventeen away
from six now Gavin Gray live from the UK next.
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Speaker 2 (25:33):
In just a few minutes. The tech breakdown on Friday.
Was it a media beat up or a genuine crisis?
Because Microsoft says only one percent of its computers were affected.
We'll talk about that in just a few seconds right now.
Gavin Gray is with US our UK Europe correspondent Gavin
Germany apparently foiling a suspected terror plot tell us about that.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Good morning to you, Ryan. Yeah, I'm confirmed. But it
is said that the days before the final of the
Euros in which of course England football team were defeated
by Spain two to one. It was last Sunday's big
football showpiece. But it's now been claimed that in the
days before that, police in Germany managed to foil a
(26:15):
suspected terrorist plot by Islamic state. It was said that
there was the potential to attack a fan zone, so
where fans don't have tickets, they obviously go to a
big screen in a big area, and it was said
to be in Berlin's sprawling bright shiped flats. Thousands of
supporters did gather there, but that was after three suspects
had been detained by German special forces coordinated raids in
(26:39):
the nearby Potsdam district, and it was said that of
those it is thought that people were taking pictures on
their phones of the area beforehand, so it said the
men were known to Islamic were known as Islamic State
supporters already to German surveillance and of course around Let's
not forget all this before the Olympics starts in Paris
(27:02):
amid very type security on Friday.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Yeah, that is a worry, isn't it. And I know
I've got about forty five thousand police officers are going
to be in the city for the opening ceremony. Let's
go to Leeds riots and leads.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Yeah, so Leeds, big city in Yorkshire, northeast of England,
and when the local authority turned up with police in
order to take some children away from one particular family.
We don't have any more details, but obviously the authorities
did not think the children were safe. All of a
sudden they were surrounded by lots of other people thought
(27:36):
to be from the Roma community, of which there is
a large ethnic population of Roma in the Harehills district
of Leeds. It led to some violence. Police were attacked
with things being thrown at them, but also if police
car was overturned, officers pelted as I mentioned, and a
bus was set on fire. Well a man has now
been charged with arson and violent disorder because of the bus,
(27:59):
and five others have been arrested on suspicion and violent disorder.
Lots of very good pictures on social media of those
who were said to be the ringleaders, and the Home
Secretary saying this was just absolutely audacious, senseless violence and
it will not be allowed and the police are to
take the full force of action against those that are
found responsible. Conditions there still said to be very tense
(28:23):
in the Ahals area as the children are still away
from the family and the family say they want their
children back. They've done nothing wrong.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Gosh, it does sound like a very distressing situation. Kevin,
thank you very much for your time. Kevin Gray, UK
Europe correspondent with us this morning ten two.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Six Ryan Bridge.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Parts of the world came to a stop on Friday
night when computer systems crashed, leaving people looking an error
message known as the Blue Screen of Death. Flights were grounded,
payment systems were down. Street lights in Levin were turned
off just Levin or all the other places too. Presumably
it was all caused by an update to Microsoft devices
(29:03):
issued by the tech company crowd Strike, whose shares have
since plummeted. It expert and Rush Digital founder done to abseria,
is with me now? Done? A good morning?
Speaker 3 (29:12):
How do we go?
Speaker 2 (29:13):
They say that that this affected only one percent of
Microsoft's computers, and yet it seems to have have had
a huge impact on on you know, lots of different
parts of the world.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Why is that, Yeah, it's it's because a lot of
server software, a lot of service systems actually support many
many users. So the Microsoft Azure cloud was affected by this,
which is why so many sort of online services went out.
And if you think about banking servers, you know they
(29:46):
might only have a couple of servers, but it serves
their entire customer base, so you have if you take
out a few of these machines they cause these kinds
of outages.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
So that that statistic that they put out saying it
so don't worry, it's only one percent, that actual it's
not the full picture. Really.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Yeah, there's a bit of spin on that, right, Like
they're not really talking about how many people it affected
that that would be one set, right, Like they're just
talking about purely computer systems, which I don't think is
a really fair metric to be using that.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Could it happen again? And could cyber criminals do exactly
what they have done? I mean, if I was a
cyber criminal, I'd be looking at what happened on Friday
and I'd be thinking, right, how can I do that?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Yeah, No, it's a it's a pretty interesting point. I
think one thing that is I guess leaked is you know,
the intelligence with the what they call intelligence, but basically
cyber criminals knowing what kind of software you're running. It's
kind of like knowing what kind of lock you've got
on your door, and if there's a vulnerability about that lock,
you know they're going to be using that. There have
been reports of fishing and sort of cybersecurity scams already
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pretending to be you know, support staff from CrowdStrike and
Microsoft and other vendors that were involved in the outage.
So you're absolutely spot on, you know, to cyber criminals
doing what cybercriminals do best. I guess. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
And interestingly, China dodged a bullet on all of this
because they don't use CrowdStrike.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Yeah. Yeah, I think that you'd probably refer to that
as some kind of unintended side effect of not trusting
American technology companies. But it does demonstrate, you know, there's
definitely been a failure from CrowdStrike to properly test their
software before sending it out. That's evident because if it
affected eight point five million machines, it's really hard to
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believe that, you know, the test team couldn't reproduce it
in their lab before releasing it. So I think crowdstrikes
in for a world hurt in terms of lawsuits and liabilities.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Absolutely, especially when you've got especially when you've got emergency
services lines down as a result of it as well. Danu,
thank you very much for your time this morning. Always
appreciate your insight. That's done Abassiria. He's the IT expert
and Rush Digital founder. It's seven Away from six. Mike
Hoskins next.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition with
Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture, Beds and
a playing Store. On News Talk, said b This is
news Talk, said be breaking news.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
And breaking news this morning. Joe Biden is stepping down
as the Democratic presidential candidate. He says it's been the
greatest honor of his life to serve as president, but
that he is going to step aside from the ticket
as the presidential candidate for the Democrats. This is news
just breaking out of the United States right now. We're
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expecting to hear from Biden shortly. Mike Hoskins just walked
in because he's about to start his show. Mike, you
actually called this, didn't you? On Friday.
Speaker 11 (32:44):
Yes, he'll be speaking later on this week because obviously
he's isolating in deverworld and he's got to get back
to Washington, and so the pressure's obviously got as we
left on Friday, Pelosi, Schumer and Obama, it all got
to him, and the money dried up, and there was
a phone call over the weekend, I think yesterday with
Harrison several hundred donors of the party were sort of
(33:06):
being briefed on where this goes. So I'm assuming now
it's I mean, they will go to the convention, presumably
in Chicago. And but then the question is is it
an open contest? Do they just give it to Harris
anoint her.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Well, they can't.
Speaker 11 (33:19):
They can't give it to her, I don't think because
of the delegates. The delegates have pledged to vote for Biden,
and so they've all been clear to pledge to vote
for Biden. So I'm assuming it will be an open contest.
But with the theory being that by the time Harris
arrives there with whoever she takes with her, it's a
done deal without it being a done deal, if you
(33:40):
if you see what I mean, because the last thing
they need now, of course, is to have a big scrap.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
A messy primary. But anyway, it's all on. It's getting
exciting Monday. It is indeed, right there you go. That'll
that'll do your show for today.
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